ASCII art is something that I never got into but always fascinated me… now I found this “ASCII art” from 1934 created on a typewriter:
Wikipedia definition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_art)
ASCII art is a graphic design technique that utilizes computers for presentation and consists of pictures pieced together from the 95 printable (from a total of 128) characters defined [...]
Lego is part of pop culture and people go crazy about it… or they just have too much time. Check out these videos:
Matrix:
Michael Jackson’s Thriller:
8-bit homecomputer chip-sound tribute:
D-Day (CG animated):
Lego photo [...]
Here the original Nokia James Bond car remote control for his BMW in “Tomorrow never dies”:
Now possible with an iPhone! Nice
The topic is maybe not the most up to date but it’s just right for me today (sitting sick at home with headache). Obama and his Mickey Mouse diplomacy. I always thought that this guy is cleverer than Bush – No chance! He called the Czech prime minister at midnight out of bed just to [...]
This post is no spam, OK? This is a sweepstake that deserves to be distriubted the viral way. You can win the original contract of the Beatles! How cool!
Check it out here: http://www.imagine.uk.com/
Russians don’t have to copy Opel anymore. They simply bought it… not bad. It’s clearly a political move to sell it to Sbierbank.
Photo by _danus
I just got some ice cream (X-Cream-Sundae ) for my wife and me at Burger King and a guy who bought a few burgers in front of me returned to the desk to ask if there is pork in the burgers. Nice ! OK, you can never know but Whoppers are [...]
Today is:
Cosmonautics Day (Russian: День Космонавтики) is a holiday celebrated (mainly in Russia) every April 12 to commemorate the first manned earth orbit. It was established in the USSR on April 9, 1962.
Maybe this holiday was supposed to replace easter in soviet times? Although in Russia easter is [...]
Spotted this nice video of Röyksopp. It’s called “Happy Up Here” and it’s featuring an EPIC Space Invaders battle. Check it out!
I played Space Invaders the first time on my 286 PC. It was a fancy 4-color CGA version with annoying PC beep sound. Funny enough that I never had it [...]
These are poems in Polish by Czesław Miłosz (Czesław Miłosz; (June 30, 1911—August 14, 2004) was a Polish poet, prose writer and translator. From 1961 to 1978 he was a professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1980 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is widely [...]
